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What a relinquishment does
હક્કમાફી — also called હક કમી or ફારગતી — is a release by which one co-owner or co-heir gives up their undivided share in jointly held or inherited property in favour of the other co-owners. The classic use is after a death: one sibling releases their share so the revenue record can be corrected in favour of the rest.
Where several people simply bought a property jointly and one now wants to sell out, that is a sale of a share and needs a sale deed — not a relinquishment. Using the wrong instrument produces a document the Sub-Registrar will not accept, and which would not have transferred anything if he had. Establish first that the parties are genuinely co-owners of an undivided interest.
Section 17(1) of the Registration Act, 1908 makes registration compulsory for any non-testamentary instrument that creates, declares, assigns, limits or extinguishes a right, title or interest of ₹100 or more in immovable property. In 1908 that was a threshold; today it captures essentially every property transaction. Where a compulsorily registrable document is left unregistered, section 49 bars it from affecting the property or being received as evidence of the transaction.
Carrying it into the record
Registration is not the end. The resulting entry in the revenue record is હક કમી — removal of right — applied for at the taluka e-Dhara (ઇ-ધરા) centre for rural land, or the City Survey office for urban property. A relinquishment that is registered but never carried into the record leaves the position exactly as ambiguous as before.
Release with or without consideration
A release may be voluntary, or made against a payment that equalises shares. Both are common; the deed should say plainly which it is and record any payment. Where the release is in favour of some co-owners but not all, say precisely whose share increases and by how much.
Where the family is dividing rather than consolidating, the instrument is a partition deed instead.
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Drafted here, in Gujarati or English
Drafted by an advocate of 35+ years rather than filled into a downloaded template, e-stamped at a Government authorised centre, and notarised in the same visit. If the parties read Gujarati, the document is drafted in Gujarati — not translated out of an English form, because legal Gujarati has its own settled vocabulary and a literal translation frequently means something looser.
What to bring
- Title documents and the full chain of title
- 7/12 and 8-A extract, or the property card for urban property
- Mutation entries in the revenue record
- Photo ID and PAN for every party
- Details of every co-owner or heir with an interest
- Death certificate where the co-ownership arose by inheritance